Informing Child Welfare: The Promise and Limits of Empirical Research

Child Welfare Research: Advances for Practice and Policy

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages

  Pelton, Leroy H ^a  

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Author keywords

Child protection; Child removal; Child welfare policy; Child welfare research; Child welfare system; Family preservation

Indexed keywords

EID: 78650069411     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195304961.003.0002     Document Type: Chapter

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